On 2024.08.19 17:07, Jacob Keller wrote: > I recently sent a series to enable mailmap support in format patch. The > discussion led me to realize that the true problem we wanted solved is to > map addresses at send time, so that we do not accidentally include a dead > mail address when sending an old change. > > Instead of worrying about what the formatted patch has, this series > implements support for mailmap at the send-email, which will translate all > addresses, and not just the author/commit addresses for a patch, but also > the email for any trailers.o > > With v2, we now have a configuration option (sendemail.mailmap) to enable > this behavior. In addition, I enabled support for email-specific mailmap > files. > > The intention of these is to allow a maintainer to map the known-dead > addresses of former colleagues onto a current email for an owner within the > team. This would be used to update the send addresses to avoid including > no-longer-valid addresses when sending patches. This is intended for cases > where the original author is no longer valid such as when they are no > longer employed to work on the project. While sometimes pointing to a > canonical public address of that person may make sense, in other contexts, > removing them from the email makes sense. > > I believe this version solves the use case we have of ensuring that we stop > sending emails with invalid addresses, and may be useful for others as > well. > > Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Changes in v2: > - Loosen restriction on git check-mailmap by default, rather than > introducing a specific --no-brackets option. > - Re-write commit message for the send-email changes. > - Add --mailmap-file and --mailmap-blob options to git check-mailmap. > - Add configuration options to git send-email for enabling mailmap support > by default, as well as providing send-email specific mailmap files. > - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240816-jk-send-email-mailmap-support-v1-0-68ca5b4a6078@xxxxxxxxx > - Link to previous "v0": https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240813-jk-support-mailmap-git-format-patch-v1-1-1aea690ea5dd@xxxxxxxxx > > --- > Jacob Keller (3): > check-mailmap: accept "user@host" contacts > [1] check-mailmap: add options for additional mailmap sources > send-email: add mailmap support via sendemail.mailmap and --mailmap > > mailmap.h | 7 +++ > builtin/check-mailmap.c | 25 +++++--- > mailmap.c | 9 +-- > Documentation/git-check-mailmap.txt | 18 ++++-- > git-send-email.perl | 20 ++++++ > t/t4203-mailmap.sh | 33 +++++++++- > t/t9001-send-email.sh | 122 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 7 files changed, 215 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) > --- > base-commit: 87a1768b93a67d0420255a43d9e07387b2e805ad > change-id: 20240816-jk-send-email-mailmap-support-1a9e86867c72 > > Best regards, > -- > Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> > This looks good to me, just some small test complaints in Patch #1. Thanks for sending the series!
